Housing Benefit

Overview

This stylised short film follows the unexpected intertwining of the fates of a young man, who applies for housing benefit during the day, and the clerk who processes his application. When they meet by chance in a bar that evening and events take an unexpected turn, they both end up in his flat. During their late-night conversation, the clerk reveals the absurdity of her daily work at the office – a world full of nonsensical rules, powerlessness and alienation, which is disturbingly reminiscent of a Kafkaesque labyrinth. This intimate drama, laced with black humour, shows that the victims of bureaucracy are not only its clients, but also those who carry it out.

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Cast

Anežka Rusevová

Květa

Filip Týc

Zbyněk

Štěpán Coufal

Marián Tureček

Štěpánka Pencová

Vrátná

Tomáš Karab

Úředník

Lucie Volhejnová

Úřednice

Bára Veselá

Žadatelka 1

Viera Pavlíková

Žadatelka 2

Michal Kolář

Žadatel

Jakub Haubert

Spolubydlící